A small, precious thing from almost 100 years ago is this wallet-sized card of mounted dried flowers from Palestine given to my great-grandmother Effie Laster by a friend of hers. She lived her life in Jefferson County, Kansas, spending most of it in Billtown (officially, Williamstown).

Luna B's a big half Maine Coon, but he appears small when playing while I make the bed.

Thank you, but that's a pseudonym. Christine de Pisan (or Pizan) was a 14th-century Venetian feminist historian and poet fed up with the misogyny of her time who envisioned a City of Women where women could flourish without the constraints imposed by men.

Ghislaine Maxwell's first name is spelled three ways in her immigration and passport documents. On her passport it appears as Chislaine. I've never heard of such discrepancies before.

Erwin Chemerinsky, who served on one of the late '90s CRCs, is providing a very interesting, broad overview of that late '90s process and the challenges of having an elected and an appointed CRC.

Raphe Sonenshein is speaking to the CRC meeting about the history of the 1997--1999 charter reform.

In this polycentric, polyglot, multiethnic, hypercreative beautiful mess of a city where folks know what's what and have been largely protesting peaceably, people rise up to support the most vulnerable,...